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I/A Series Intelligent SCADA SCADA Platform

The I/A Series Intelligent SCADA Platform takes the traditional SCADA Master Station to a new integrated operational environment. Whether your enterprise manages the transmission or distribution of electricity, oil, gas, water, waste water, or transportation, the I/A Series Intelligent SCADA Platform provides a scalable, secure, and cost-effective operational solution.

OVERVIEW
The I/A Series Intelligent SCADA Platform components are based on a proven, flexible distributed architecture, developed by Invensys Process Systems, with a history of more than 40 years of global SCADA project and product engineering.

This Intelligent SCADA system provides an open systems real-time control environment for the integrated enterprise. Standard interfaces provide The modularity and distributed nature of the system low risk connectivity for industry-based high level components allow system capacity to grow with your applications and enterprise-wide integrated solutions. enterprise. Intelligent SCADA is designed to scale from a single workstation installation to large, high performance enterprise systems.

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Sun Ultra hardware and Solaris operating system technology are used to support all client server modules including human machine interface (HMI) and application clients. HMI client modules are also available on Intel systems running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The operational environment gives a common look and feel on all operating systems, combined with an operate from anywhere network connectivity to the SCADA database. SCADA system components are arranged redundantly to support very high availability platforms. Redundant components may include:
Human Machine Interface (HMI) Front-End Processor (FEP) Database Calculations History Communications Networks and workstations.

The HMI provides the following main facilities at the operator console. Data Visualization The operator is able to visualize data from a wide range of graphic displays. Complexity can be managed by the use of:
Layering Panning Zooming Decluttering.

Display Navigation The operator is able to navigate to/from each graphic using:
Display selection from dynamic objects Control and display access from any point value Built-in navigational links between displays.

Data and Control Presentation Supervisory control is managed directly from the observed display by presentation of all relevant information. This provides:
Positive control reserve indication Two-step control actions Associated point value and quality status display System lists (dynamically updated) Operator controllable system list filtering/scrolling Control interlocking System monitoring Detection of islanding conditions.

State-of-the-art, real-time object distribution and management provide object level redundancy and load sharing in the Master Station.

Human Machine Interface

The Human Machine Interface (HMI) subsystem provides the operator interface and the visualization tools of the system via single or multiple monitor displays. This subsystem also manages system lists, report generation and printing, and logging services. The operate from anywhere architecture supports remote modem access by Windows (Intel based) operator stations. Each remote station has the same HMI functions as those of the SCADA Master Station. A typical HMI console consists of one or more screens that provide a windowing environment accessible by a single keyboard and mouse.

Data Representation Data can be represented by a number of specialized dynamic foreground objects. For example:
Integers and text X/Y plots Single and multiple pen trends Bar graphs Pie charts Meters and gauges Push buttons

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Sliders GIF and X-bitmap images Dynamic object coloring Object X/Y animation Shrink and grow object animation.

Standard terminal servers may be redundantly configured for multiple RS-232 telemetry connections. The integral RS-232 ports of the FEP servers may also be used. The FEP can scan RTUs using SCADA protocols over TCP/IP (for example, DNP over TCP/IP). SCADA protocols are integrated to retrieve data and issue controls to remote devices. Invensys Process Systems track and contribute to a variety of open protocol user groups and committees. The open protocols implemented include:
DNP3 IEC 60870-5-101 IEC 60870-5-104.

Front End Processor (FEP)

The Front End Processor (FEP) is the telemetry manager of the system. It comprises software and hardware components. The FEP manages and controls multiple communication lines for:
Line health Line loading Line fail over.

Line error statistics are calculated and are available for diagnostic and operational review. Line fail over can be manually controlled or automatically initiated by the setting of adjustable communication line failure parameters. Check before execute output commands and field time synchronization are coordinated by the FEP using standard protocol facilities. The FEP has the capability to manage a number of different physical communications interfaces. The optional Communications Line Server (CLS), an Invensys Process Systems device tightly integrated with the FEP software, provides features not available in commercial terminal servers. These include:
Redundant LAN connections Physical line fail over switching Isochronous protocols Direct GPS interface High accuracy (millisecond) time synchronization

Core SCADA
Core SCADA provides the core processing of incoming raw data and updates real-time SCADA objects. A 64-bit quality assessment of all data is made and published to services including alarms, events, HMI, application interfaces, and history. Supervisory controls are securely managed using check before execute sequence management. Some of the features provided by the alarm system are:
High and low limits Severity zones on analog alarms Alarm priority Alarm filtering Audible annunciation Audible acknowledgement Alarm list line and page-based acknowledgment Better and worse analog alarm tracking.

of Remote Terminal Units (RTUs)

Integrated V.23/Bell 202 modems Industrial hardened technology.

Refer to PSS 21H-8D2 B4 for further CLS details.

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Database
The Database subsystem manages all objects instantiated in memory and on disk in the system for read, write, install, redundancy, and data persistence. The database used to achieve this is the commercially available Versant Object Oriented Database Management System (OODBMS). Examples of system objects include:
Host stations Scanned devices (for example, RTUs) Communication channels Point data Scan rates Points.

calculated as data and retrieved for either display or query.

Calculations
The I/A Series Intelligent SCADA platform allows user defined calculations using IEC 61131-3 programming language. When a calculation is initiated, object data is read, the calculations performed, and the results written back to database objects. Digital event triggering, periodic execution, or real-time triggering can initiate calculation execution.

Application Programming Interface

The application programming interface provides an Object Interface Library (OIL) for integrating OEM process applications, user-developed application packages and real-time data interfaces using C/C++ programming language.

Point data can be associated with multiple operational regions, a particular alarm group and category. These associations are used later for list filtering and permission for control access.

Structured Query Language History

The history subsystem provides distributed redundant storage of SCADA data samples for up to one year on-line. All change-based data samples are recorded for later retrieval. Data samples arriving late or out of sequence due to communications failures are retrospectively merged with the stored data sequence for each point. Older data can be automatically compressed to optimize storage space. Disturbance triggers can be assigned to prevent subsequent compression of data associated with a plant disturbance. The history subsystem also manages the transfer and retrieval of data to optical archive. The history system supports the trend display, tabular list display, and structured query language (SQL) queries. User specified transformations on historical data such as Max/Min/Avg can be Structured query language enables open database connectivity (ODBC) to enterprise databases for corporate data exchange and personal computer desktop applications access.

Supervisory
A SCADA process monitor runs in each UNIX workstation to supervise and report on the state of the SCADA subsystems running in each machine. Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used to synchronize time between the NTP time master and all other LAN connected UNIX servers. Windows based workstations are synchronized using Microsoft NTP or equivalent resources for Windows PCs and Servers.

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OPERATOR CONSOLES

ENGINEERING

SQL ACCESS

REMOTE OPERATOR TERMINAL

CORPORATE LAN/WAN REDUNDANT LAN

I/A Series INTELLIGENT SCADA PLATFORM

SCADA SERVERS

APPLICATION SERVER REMOTE ACCESS TERMINAL ROUTERS/ FIREWALLS

REDUNDANT SUB LAN

GPS

FIELD DEVICES COMMUNICATION CHANNELS

ROUTED DNP OVER IP ETHERNET RING

SCD5200 SCD5200 OEM RTU VIA OPEN PROTOCOL RTU LAN SCD5200 SCD5200

SCD5200

SCD5200 SCD5200

IED

EFM

Figure 1. Typical I/A Series SCADA System

The previous diagram shows the major units of the system built around a redundant Ethernet backbone LAN. The redundant CLS chassis are connected on a communications subLAN, keeping communications traffic off the main LAN. The SCADA servers in this case are running all the SCADA subsystems. This configuration is typical for systems of up to 50,000 points. As the systems scale up, typical

enhancements are to distribute the subsystems by adding dedicated servers for tasks such as History, Calculations, Applications with API and to simply add more operator positions. The operator positions can be upgraded to an applications workstation functionality allowing extra tasks such as, Calculation or Archive to be included making use of idle CPU time typically observed at an operator position.

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Performance and Capacity

Performance is dependent on the hardware platform chosen to operate the system, other configurable functions that run on the same station, and general system load. The product is validated on different Sun hardware platforms; the Sun T5120 server is capable of handling up to 10,000 telemetry and 10,000 manual points, and the Sun M3000 (SPARC VI/VII processor) is capable of handling up to 20,000 telemetry and 30,000 manual points per station. The Sun M3000 (SPARC VI/VII processor based) server is the recommend hardware for this product.

The stated general capacity and performance is based on the following assumptions:
Sun M3000 servers are used. The bandwidth of the LAN is 100 Mbps. Each station has a maximum of 50,000 objects.

Table 1. Intelligent SCADA System General Capacity Item Maximum Number

DOMAIN
Stations per domain Objects per domain 32 150,000

Redundant copies (total number) per object 3(a) Total redundant objects per domain Open databases 50,000 Limited by hardware resources(b)

STATION
Points per station Telemetered points per FEP station Alarms per station Active off-normals per station Active tags per station Active channels per FEP station 50,000 20,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 200

(a) The base system has been optimized to suit a single redundant server. (b) When the user opens a non-distributed database, the full database is served from the workstation where the database is kept. This requires memory and/or swap space resources to hold the database, and CPU resources to serve clients. Though there is no software limit on the number of open databases in a workstation, too many reduces the performance of the workstation for real-time work (for example, scanning and serving real-time data).

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The indicative performance of the Intelligent SCADA system is shown in the following table: Table 2. Intelligent SCADA System Performance Item Maximum Number

FEP/CORE SCADA
FEP throughput, as a total of data retrieved from all remote devices(a) FEP throughput, as a total of data offered to Core SCADA(a) Average data retrieved per remote device(a) 138 kilobytes of data per second 240 kilobytes of data per second 200 point values per second(b)

Maximum publication rate, of changes in point data, 250 points per second (normal) for a database node to the network 1,000 points per second (burst load) Maximum alarm rate Maximum event rate(c) 1,000 alarms per second 1,000 events per second

CALCULATIONS
Maximum calculations configurator compile time Maximum number of calculated results for simple expressions (for example, x = y + z)(d) 180 lines per minute 500 results per second

(a) The throughput of FEP is calculated as a function of the number of telemetered points retrieved by a single FEP station. Calculations are based on a FEP with the maximum of 24 channels at 9600 baud, and a data efficiency of 60%. Assuming the TCP/IP (Ethernet interface) allows a maximum of 200 packets per second. (b) For example, 40 point values retrieved per scan request, with 5 scan requests per second per channel (assuming 50% analog and 50% digital). (c) The HMI performance is based on the assumption that the History software is not in the same station as the HMI software, although this is a perfectly valid combination. (d) Performance is directly related to the complexity of calculations, the distribution and location of data objects used in the calculations, and general system load.

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